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In Conversation with David Ireland

David Ireland is a Northern Irish-born playwright and actor most known for his award-winning plays Cyprus Avenue and Ulster American. He won the Stewart Parker Award and the Meyer-Whitworth Award in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright 2016. He has recently won the James Tait Black Prize Award for Cyprus Avenue.

We spoke to David about Cyprus Avenue, Belfast and his writing influences.

Why did you think Cyprus Avenue was a story that had to be told?

I don’t really think of any play I write as a story that “has to be told”. I know a lot of writers approach their work this way but it’s not for me. I think the world would be better off without my plays and I try my best to avoid writing them but something drives me to do it. Some pernicious discontent.

Cyprus Avenue was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre Dublin. I was aware I was being commissioned as an Irish writer – but I’ve always felt British. I’ve always identified as British. And yet, I’m undeniably influenced by so muc

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David Ireland (author)

Australian writer (1927–2022)

For other people with the same name, see David Ireland.

David Neil IrelandAM (24 August 1927 – 26 July 2022) was an Australian novelist.^[1]

Background

David Ireland was born in Lakemba in south-west Sydney in New South Wales in 1927.

Before taking up full-time writing in 1973, he undertook the classic writer's apprenticeship by working in a variety of jobs, ranging from greenskeeper to an extended period in the Siverwater oil refinery, on the river downstream of Parramatta.^[1]

This latter job inspired his second (and best-known) novel, The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, which brought him recognition in the early 1970s. It is still considered by many critics to be one of the best and most original Australian novels of the period.

Writings

Ireland became a full time writer in his late 40s, and was a prolific novelist from the 1970s to the 1980s, winning the Miles Franklin Award three times (1971, 1976 and 1979). He is one of only four Australian writers to win the Award more than

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Biography

Born in Bellingham, Washington, on August 25, 1930

Died in San Francisco, California, on May 17, 2009

American artist David Ireland is admired internationally for a diverse body of work concerned with the beauty inherent in everyday things and the making of art as a part of daily life. His idiosyncratic, hybrid practice blends sculpture, architecture, painting, and performance, and often draws on ordinary materials such as dirt, concrete, wood, or wire that he collected over time.

“You can’t make art by making art” has become one of Ireland’s best-known sayings and it’s often used to summarize the philosophy that guided his Zen-like, interdisciplinary practice. Concerned with formal and material invention and in happenings outside the sphere of marketable art, his work explores complex questions of creativity, the role of the artist, and the meaning of art.

Ireland’s best-known work is his house at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco, which served simultaneously as his environmental artwork, social sculpture, and residence for 30 years. It embodies his visual languag